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Investigating English in Europe
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching or just learning more about the changing role and status of English across Europe. The status of English …
Using English as a Lingua Franca in Education in Europe
This volume examines the role of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in education in Europe. Following the implementation of the Bologna process, English has assumed a central role in …
Visualizing Digital Discourse
The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital …
The Weaponizing of Language in the Classroom and Beyond
In this edited volume, language weaponization — or the weaponization of language — is used to describe the process in which words, discourse, and language in any form can be used …
Towards a New Standard
In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving rise to a new …
Palliative Care Conversations
This book will be the first of its kind to offer intensive conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the context of palliative medicine. The book focuses on a …
English as a Scientific and Research Language
This volume examines the role of English in academic and research settings in Europe and provides recommendations on the challenges posed by the dominance of English over national …
Staging Language
Although there are many studies on linguistic variation as it relates to both "traditional" and "new" media such as film, TV, newspapers, and online behavior, little has been …
Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology
This edited collection presents papers relating to the state of the art in Perceptual Dialectology research. The authors take an international view of the field of Perceptual …
Attitudes towards English in Europe
The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for …
Latin Americans in London
This book explores the life stories of Latin American immigrants living in London. Through a critical analysis of their discourses in various contexts, this book provides insights …
Swearing and Cursing
While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, …